It's so heartening to see several hundred of the professionally unemployed and aggrieved out demonstrating, doing the yeoman's work the millions of working people and the amateur unemployed don't have the time to do.

It's not so cute this time around, but it was at first, last time, to some people. Remember?

Oh, yes. A year ago, Elizabeth Warren was proudly beaming that she was the intellectual godmother of the OWS movement. Now, she'd rather sign a dozen copies of "Pow Wow Chow" than mention these clowns.

So funny to see the house liberals pick and choose who should have free speech rights and under what circumstances. A nobody who makes an unflattering film about Islam? Too bad it hurts obama, sod off. A bunch of incoherent losers who want to take over a park for weeks on end and piss and shit all over, no problem. I'd love to live in your world if only for a summer.

Says an Occupytard: "In my mind, it didn't set out to accomplish x, y and z," said Mikell Kober of Brooklyn, who on Monday morning had joined a break-off group of protesters outside a Bank of America branch on Broadway. Rather, she said, it "was about creating a public space where people could gather and have a conversation about the things that need to change."

Hey....if you wnt to create a public space where people can talk....rent a hall instead of stealing other people's space.

I think this demonstration against unfairness should be allowed to flourish. Were I the mayor of NY I would reopen the park and let them have it. An interesting article, somewhat sympathetic, in Bloomberg notes that the "movement" last year was collapsing on itself, becoming a microcosm of the society it protested. I think unfairness is basically unfair and in fairness the protesters should be allowed a place to air their frustrations with unfairness. Many people use what is known as the internet for this purpose but it is difficult to "occupy" the internet and squeeze out other opinions.

Garage, it's a bit racist to associate Jews with litter, soiled clothing, rotting garbage and human excrement. Look, it's a pretty much universally accepted fact that the Occupy camps were public health nuisances to disasters. But, your racism really makes it hard to talk with you when you think that people wanting to not spread diseases and create local communities where rape is encouraged to go unreported is the same as Jews showing up somewhere. Jews are nice people Garage, we can help you get over your hate.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you have the right for your speech to occupy the most prominent forum you can find. In other words, you can't demand that your speech succeeds through force and occupation.

The internet is available to all. Sirius Radio has channels devoted to every possible political perspective.

Hey, you're the one throwing in with the Taliban's opinions on Jews and somehow thinking that is as valid as people not wanting communities camping in and destroying public spaces. I don't see the connection between Jewish holidays and months long protests that ruin public property for other people. Please, explain why you think we should associate them.

(PS: If you don't get it yet Garage, there's a difference between individual PARTS of Occupy that are respectable and the movement as a whole, which covered up rapes and destroyed public property. Yet, when people talk about the parts that everyone agrees was bad, your only response is: "Well, some Jews were there too." No one cares that some of Occupy were reasonable people who didn't turn a park into a cesspool, the problem is you seem to only be able to focus on that, which leads me to think A) You're not good at critical thinking or B) More inflammatory, you associate Jews with all the terrible things Occupy did. In an attempt to make your flawed reasoning clear, we went with the most outrageous. But, I guess, err, it would've been best to spell it out, since A is probably true.)

Last time around, they were courted by the left, who thought that OWS might just be their answer to the Tea Party. But now, as the election goes into the final stretch, the Dems don't want their laundry in public view, and so Occupy is going to stay hidden, at least until a Romney election. They just remind everyone about some of the negative aspects of the Democratic party and the loonie left.

"They have yet to come out with a policy statement, and now, who are they disrupting? People who are working, people who are trying to pay a mortgage or put their kids through school."

From the article.

And that's the problem, garage. It's not about free speech or having a demonstration in a park. Lots of people do that. Tea Party does that. The Nazi marchers do that. Gay pride parades do that. Lots of groups that lots of people don't like do that and it's all just fine. They get their permits, even the Nazis, and they march and say their bit, and maybe they even clean up and then they leave so other people can use the public space too.

Occupy is about fucking with other people, disrupting their lives, making them miserable and *occupying* the park area, 24-7, as if it belongs to them. NO ONE was having their lunches in these places or bringing their kids to enjoy the parks.

And yes, a whole lot of people thought it was cute at the time. Oh, look! I just had a 60's acid flash-back, groovy! And there is certainly an element of ideology that people should be activists for the sake of being activist. So there was a lot of support for a "movement" with no plan other than to be obnoxious and piss people off, no goals, no purpose, and no exit strategy.

And the rules for permits or respecting other people's rights to use public spaces, who cares, right?

Rules are for the Tea Party.

Who is being greedy? Occupy strikes me as the biggest bunch of entitled greedy brats out there.

Reminds me of the terrorist tactics of Anonymous; when there's no accountability even to a movement or an agenda, anyone can do anything and claim its mantle - and just as they refuse others the ability to blame, they must refuse themselves the ability to take credit or control inclusion.

Reminds me of the terrorist tactics of Anonymous; when there's no accountability even to a movement or an agenda, anyone can do anything and claim its mantle - and just as they refuse others the ability to blame, they must refuse themselves the ability to take credit or control inclusion.